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1 Steven Ramey Department of Religious Studies The University of Alabama Box , Tuscaloosa, AL Office Academic Work History: University of Alabama, Department of Religious Studies Professor, Fall 2016 Present Director, Asian Studies Program, Fall Present Associate Professor, Fall 2011 Spring 2016 Assistant Professor, Fall 2006 Spring 2011 University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Department of Philosophy and Religion Assistant Professor Fall Spring 2006 Furman University, Department of Religion Adjunct Instructor Fall Spring 2004 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Religious Studies Teaching Fellow Summer Session II Fall 2002 Elon University, Elon, North Carolina, Department of Religion Adjunct Instructor Fall 1999 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Religious Studies Teaching Assistant Spring Spring 2003 Degrees Earned: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ph.D., May 2004 Dissertation Title - Defying Borders: Contemporary Sindhi Hindu Constructions of Practices and Identifications Emory University M.Div. Honors, May 1997, Summa Cum Laude Thesis Title - Mutable Symbols: The Meanings and Functions of Sikhism s Panj Kakke Furman University B. A., History, June 1991, Summa Cum Laude

2 Ramey - 2 Books: Fabricating Difference, an edited volume. Sheffield, UK: Equinox, forthcoming 2017 Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion, an edited volume. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, Hindu, Sufi, or Sikh: The Contested Practices and Identifications of Sindhi Hindus in India and Beyond. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles: When Acceptance Reflects Disrespect: The Methodological Contradictions of Accepting Participant Statements. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 27:1 (2015): Keeping Critical Critical: A Conversation from Culture on the Edge. Critical Research on Religion 2:3 (2014): (co-authored with Craig Martin, Russell McCutcheon, Monica Miller, Merinda Simmons, Leslie Dorough Smith, and Vaia Touna). Hindu Minorities and the Limits of Hindu Inclusiveness: Sindhi and Indo-Caribbean Hindu Communities in Atlanta. International Journal of Hindu Studies 15:2 (2011): Challenging Definitions: Human Agency, Diverse Religious Practices and the Problems of Boundaries. Numen 54:1 (2007): Critiquing Borders: Teaching About Religions in a Post-colonial World. Teaching Theology and Religion 9:4 (2006): Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Volumes: Religions Are Mutually Exclusive, Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Cliches, edited by Craig Martin and Brad Stoddard. Bloomsbury, forthcoming. Chapters in Religion in Five Minutes, edited by Aaron Hughes and Russell McCutcheon. Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishers, forthcoming. Is there a large difference between the main religions or do they just have minor variations on the same overall idea? Do all religious adherents believe in the concept of a higher power? Is Yoga Religious? Nostalgia and the Discourse Concerning Nones. In The Problem of Nostalgia: Towards a Dynamic Theory of People and Place, edited by Vaia Touna. Equinox Publishers, forthcoming. The Critical Embrace: Teaching the World Religion Paradigm As Data. In After World Religions, edited by Christopher Cotter and David Robertson. Routledge, Accidental Favorites: The Implicit in the Study of Religions. In Claiming Identity in the Study of Religion: Social and Rhetorical Techniques Examined, edited by Monica Miller, Equinox Publishers, 2015.

3 Ramey - 3 Introduction: Writing, Riting, and Righting in the Critical Study of Religion. In Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion, edited by Steven Ramey, University of Alabama Press, Liminal Hindus: Disputed Boundaries and Their Impacts on Sindhi Hindus. In Lines in Water: Religious Boundaries in South Asia, edited by Tazim Kassam and Eliza Kent, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, Sindhi Hindus. In Contemporary Hinduism, edited by P. Pratap Kumar, Durham, UK; Bristol, CT: Acumen Publishing, Recreating Sindh: Formations of Sindhi Hindu Guru Movements in New Contexts. In Interpreting the Sindhi World: Essays on Society and History, edited by Michel Boivin and Matthew A. Cook, Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press, Temples and Beyond: Varieties of Hindu Experiences in the South. In Religion in the Contemporary South: Changes, Continuities, and Contexts, edited by Corrie Norman and Don Armentrout, Knoxville: U. of Tennessee Press, Peer Reviewed Essays Authorizing Identifications, Disciplining Techniques: The Affinities of Public Authority. In Claiming Identity in the Study of Religion: Social and Rhetorical Techniques Examined, edited by Monica Miller, Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishers, Textbooks, Assumptions, and Us: Commentary on Jimmy Emanuelsson s Islam and the Sui-generis Discourse: Representations of Islam in Textbooks Used in Introductory Courses of Religious Studies in Sweden - Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 26 (2014): Book Reviews, Encyclopedia Articles, and Other Publications: Book review Hindu Rituals at the Margins: Innovations, Transformations, Reconsiderations, edited by Linda Penkower and Tracy Pintchman, Religions in South Asia, forthcoming. Patricide and the Nation. In Fabricating Origins, edited by Russell McCutcheon, Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishing, Book review - Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities, Anna Sun, Religion (2014). Invited essay - Responding to the Wendy Doniger Controversy: The Problems and Possibilities in the Academic Study of Religion, Bulletin for the Study of Religion 43:2 (2014): Book review - Engaging South Asian Religions Boundaries Appropriations and Resistances, Peter Gottschalk and Matthew Schmalz, eds., Journal of Hindu Studies 5:1 (2012): Book review Notes from the Fortune-Telling Parrot: Islam and the Struggle for Religious Pluralism in Pakistan, David Pinnault, Religion 40 (2010): Hinduism in America. Encyclopedia of Religion in America. Congressional Quarterly Press, 2010,

4 Ramey - 4 Book review - Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India, Christian Lee Novetzke, Journal of Contemporary Religion 25:1 (2009): Hinduism. World Book Encyclopedia Chicago: World Book,2009. Mahabharata. World Book Encyclopedia Chicago: World Book, Book review - In Amma s Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Journal of Contemporary Religion 22:3 (2007): Islam in the South. New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol. 1 Religion. Edited by Samuel S. Hill. Chapel Hill: University of Chapel Hill Press, Hinduism. Encyclopedia of Religion in the South. Edited by Samuel S. Hill, Charles Lippy, and Charles Reagan Wilson. 2 nd edition. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, Book review - America's Alternative Religions, Timothy Miller, editor, Religious Studies Review - April "Not Solomon's Temple: Uses of Cathedrals in the Middle Ages." Furman Humanities Review 4 (1991): Online Publications Huffington Post blog contributor How Do We Describe People Who Commit Violence and Their Victims? February 13, 2015 Meaningless Surveys: The Faulty Mathematics of the Nones November 7, 2013 (co-written with Monica Miller Constitutional Freedoms and Defining Religion. June 24, 2013, What Happens When We Name the Nones February , Blog contributor Culture on the Edge, June 2013 present, Blog contributor Studying Religion in Culture, May 2012 present, Blog contributor - Bulletin for the Study of Religion, April present Connections Across Borders: Further Impressions of a UA Professor. Pravasi Herald. July Beyond the Bible Belt: The Expansion of Indian-American Communities in Alabama. Pravasi Herald. May Ganesha. World Book Online Reference Center Publications in Development Forging Identities: The Challenges and Broader Implications of Representing Sindhi Communities

5 Ramey - 5 Contesting Categories: Towards a Transcultural Paradigm, a single authored volume Conference Presentations: 2016 AAR Southeast Region Annual Meeting Invited panelist The Power of the General: Applying Critical Questions from Religious Studies Broadly 2014 Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion - Panelist What Will You Do With That? A Workshop on Encouraging Majors and Enrollments 2013 AAR Annual Meeting Panelist Discussing the Nones : What They Say about the Category of Religion and American Society 2013 AAR Southeast Region Annual Meeting - Presidential Plenary Accidental Favorites: Analyzing the Implicit in the Study of Religions 2011 AAR Annual Meeting Respondent to session Constructions of Hindu Selves and Hindu Others in North America 2010 AAR Annual Meeting Global, Regional, and Local Connections in the Formation of Indian- American Communities in Atlanta 2010 AAR Southeast Region Annual Meeting Connecting Traditions: Indian-American Networks of Practices across the Southeast 2008 AAR Annual Meeting - Staying Regional, Turning Global: Dynamics of Globalization in a Contemporary Sindhi Hindu Guru Movement 2007 AAR Annual Meeting - Sustaining Minority Hinduisms: Sindhi and Indo-Caribbean Hindu Communities in Atlanta AAR Southeast Region Annual Meeting - invited panelist - Best Teaching Practices for World Religions Survey Courses 34 th Annual Conference on South Asia, U of Wisconsin - Madison - Recreating Sindh: Formations of Sindhi Hindu Saint Movements in New Contexts 2004 AAR Annual Meeting - Critiquing Borders: Teaching a Post-Colonial World Religions Survey 2004 AAR Annual Meeting - We are Hindu! Secularism, Tolerance, and the Marginalization of Sindhi Hindus 2003 AAR Annual Meeting - Hindu, Sikh, and Sufi: Recreating a Regional Heritage in the Context of Atlanta 31st Annual Conference on South Asia, U of Wisconsin - Madison - Defying Boundaries: Constructions of Identity and Practices in a Contemporary Sindhi Hindu Sant Movement

6 Ramey AAR Southeast Region Annual Meeting - Alternative Constructions: Analyzing Participation in Multiple Ritual Traditions 2000 NCRSA Annual Meeting - Which Hinduism? The Development of Hindu Traditions in the Southeastern United States 1999 AAR Southeast Region Annual Meeting - Beyond Conflict and Cooperation: Theologies of Festival Participation in South Asia 1991 National Conference for Undergraduate Research - "Not Solomon's Temple: Uses of Cathedrals in the Middle Ages" Invited presentations: Workshop co-leader, But What Do You Study? : A NAASR Workshop on Theory & Method in the Job Market, NAASR Annual meeting, Atlanta Georgia, 22 November 2015 Are They Really Hindu: Debates and Consequences of Identifications, upcoming invited lecture, Columbus State University, 15 October 2015 Hindus in Metro Atlanta: Year of India Symposium, invited lecture and panel participant, Reinhardt University, 10 April 2015 Identity Wars and the Battle for Authenticity, discussion participant via Skype with upper-level seminar, Lehigh University, 18 February 2015 Forging Identities: The Challenges and Broader Implications of Representing Sindhi Communities, invited lecture, South Asia Program, Cornell University, 29 September 2014 But We Are Hindu! The Power of the Discourse of Religions to Force Conformity, guest lecture, Furman University, 27 November 2012 Representations of Islam Religions, Politics, and Cultures of the Middle East course guest lecture, University of Alabama 8 March 2011 Undergraduate Research Roundtable panelist, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama, 4 February Hinduism and Buddhism Spirituality and Social Work course guest lecture, University of Alabama, 20 September Being Sindhi Outside Sindh: The Development of Sindhi Hindu Religious Practices Around the Globe and Can Hindus Worship Guru Nanak? The Religious Identity of Sindhi Hindus and Their Relation to Sikhism. Young Sindhi Adults Retreat VIII, Chicago, Illinois, 4 July Hindu God or Muslim Saint? Creating a Public Identity with a Contested Figure in India. Religion in Culture Lecture Series, Department of Religious Studies, University of Alabama, 1 April 2009.

7 Ramey - 7 Conflicting Representations of Hinduism and World Religions. Tuscaloosa Book Club, Tuscaloosa, AL, 10 November Basics of Islam. Religion, Politics, and Cultures of the Middle East course guest lecture, University of Alabama, 2 September Hinduism. Introduction to the Study of Religion course guest lecture, University of Alabama, November Introduction to Hinduism. Teacher training session at Yoga Bliss Studio, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 9 November Respondent to Political Religion? Deploying the Sacred in Hitler s Germany by George Williamson. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion and Conflict, University of Alabama Symposium, 28 September Basics of Islam and Islam and the Variety of Religions in the Region. The Middle East in the Twenty-First Century School and University Partners for Educational Renewal (SUPER) Teacher Institute, sponsored by the Alabama Humanities Foundation, 26, 27 June Hindus in Atlanta. Religions of Atlanta course guest lecture. Agnes Scott College, 3 April 2007 Hindu, Sikh, and Sufi: Recreating Sindhi Hindu Practices in North America. Religion in Culture Lunch Series, Department of Religious Studies, University of Alabama, 28 February Asian religions at Culture and Conflict: The Impact of Religion on World History and Geography. Teacher s workshop, Huntsville, Alabama, 23 February Why Do They Believe That? University of Alabama Crossroads Community Center, 8 November 2006 Liminal Hindus: Sindhi Hindus and the Tensions Between Strict Religious Borders and Inclusive Practices Religious Synergies Symposium, co-sponsored by Syracuse University and Cornell University Undergraduate Research Mentoring (Presentation by Undergraduate Researcher) Naif Al-Mutawa's The 99 and Roland Barthes's Theory on Myth and Semiotics Presented at REL Undergraduate Research Symposium and University of Alabama Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity conference, March 2017 Received 2017 Asian Studies Research Award And the Beat Goes On: Imaginings and Retellings of Han Shan by Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac Presented at 2016 SECSOR undergraduate panel and 2016 REL Honors Research Symposium. Shakti Pithas: Sacred Tools for Not So Sacred Ends Presented at REL Honors Research Symposium, March Myth as Illusion Presented at University of Alabama Second Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference, April 2014, International Focus winner.

8 Ramey - 8 The Dilemma of Religious Terrorism Presented at AAR Southeast Region Annual Meeting, March Taming the Monkey: An Analysis of Contemporary Uses of the Monkey King Presented at University of Alabama Second Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference, April The Rise of Islamism in Nigeria McNair Scholars Program Presented at McNair Scholars Symposium, University of California at Berkeley, August Lighting Muharram: Multi-perspective Analysis of Shia Muharram Rituals Presented at University of Alabama First Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference, April 2008 Jai Jhule Lal! A Sindhi Cultural Savior Finds a New Home in North Carolina Presented at AAR Southeast Region Annual Meeting, March 2006 Presented at North Carolina Religious Studies Association, October 2005 Departmental and University Service: University of Alabama Faculty Senate April 2017 present Member, REL Graduate Studies Committee Spring 2017 present Pedagogy Mentor for Junior Faculty/Instructors, Department of Religious Studies Fall 2013 present Chair, Department of Religious Studies Grants Committee Fall present Chair, Department of Religious Studies Retention Committee Fall 2013 Spring 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Member, Fall Fall 2012, Fall 2014-Spring 2015 Graduate Teaching Assistant Coordinator, Department of Religious Studies Fall 2013 Spring 2016, Spring 2017 Member, Department of Religious Studies Search Committees Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2011, Spring Spring 2008 Chair, College Academy for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Committee Fall 2014 Spring 2015 Chair, Department of Religious Studies Search Committees Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Fall Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2009 Chair, Department of Religious Studies Events Committee, Fall 2006 Spring 2013 Member, College of Arts & Sciences Research and Technology Working Group Fall 2011 present

9 Ramey - 9 Member, College Academy for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Committee Fall 2013 Spring 2014, Fall 2010 Spring 2012 Chair, Alabama Greece Initiative Organizing Committee, College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2010 Spring 2011 Member, Department of Religious Studies Long Range Planning Committee Spring 2010 Spring 2013 Member, Department of Religious Studies Five-year Plan Committee Fall Fall 2009 Member, Department of Religious Studies Assessment Committee Fall 2007 Member, Institutional Review Board committee, University of North Carolina at Pembroke - Fall Spring 2006 Other Professional Service: Co-Editor, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, September 2015 present. Co-Editor, Culture on the Edge Peer Reviewed blog, December present Series Editor, Culture on the Edge: Studies in Identity Formation, a book series with Equinox Publishers, April 2013 present Chair, Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, March March 2014 President, American Academy of Religion / Southeast, March March 2013 Steering Committee member, North American Hinduism consultation, American Academy of Religion, Vice President, American Academy of Religion / Southeast, March March 2012 Vice President-elect, American Academy of Religion / Southeast, March March 2011 At-Large Member, American Academy of Religion / Southeast, March 2009 March 2010 Co-chair, Religions of Asia section, American Academy of Religion / Southeast, Spring 2009 Spring 2010 Co-chair / Chair, History of Religions section, American Academy of Religion / Southeast, Spring 2005 Spring 2009 Manuscript / Thesis Referee for Andhra University, India, International Journal of Hindu Studies, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Practical Matters, Longman Publishers, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, Politics and Religion, Teaching Theology and Religion, University of California Press

10 Lead Scholar, The Middle East in the Twenty-First Century School and University Partners for Educational Renewal (SUPER) Teacher Institute, sponsored by the Alabama Humanities Foundation, 26, 27 June Grants and Awards 2011 Induction, Anderson Society, University of Alabama Ramey Research Grant Committee Award, University of Alabama, funding South Asia in Alabama: Connections and Complexity 2001 American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Dissertation Fellow 2001 David L. Boren Graduate International Fellowship (declined) 1999 University Center for International Studies Graduate Summer Research Travel Grant - UNC 1999 Perry Family Summer Research Scholarship - UNC Merit Assistantship - UNC Full Tuition Scholarship - Emory University 1990 induction, Phi Beta Kappa - Furman University Courses Taught at the University of Alabama REL 100 Introduction to Religious Studies REL 102 Introduction to Religions of the World REL Hinduism REL 220 Survey of Asian Religions REL 236 Islam REL 321 Religion and Identity in South Asia REL 322 Tales from Asia REL Advanced Studies in Hinduism REL 419 Myth, Ritual, Magic: Writing in Religion (W course) REL 483 Seminar in Asian Religions - Recreating South Asia in America Texts and Retellings: Myths from Asia in Film and Popular Culture REL 490 Capstone Senior Seminar in Religious Studies FLC 101 Engaging Asia

Katlyn Marie Carter Department of History, Princeton University 129 Dickinson Hall Princeton, NJ (510)

Katlyn Marie Carter Department of History, Princeton University 129 Dickinson Hall Princeton, NJ 08544 (510) 725-9768 kmcarter@princeton.edu Education 2017 Ph.D., History Princeton University (expected